If you read the NY Times, you will believe that there were WMD in Saddam’s possession and that certainly none of it was shipped out of the country before the liberation. The main article on the subject, dated yesterday, is headlined Arms Move to Syria ‘Unlikely,’ Report Says:

On Syria, the report said that “no information gleaned from questioning Iraqis supported the possibility” that weapons were moved out of the country before the invasion, which was one theory about why no unconventional weapons were found.

Mr. Duelfer reported that his group, the Iraq Survey Group, believed “it was unlikely that an official transfer of W.M.D. material from Iraq to Syria took place. However, I.S.G. was unable to rule out unofficial movement of limited W.M.D.-related materials.”

Seems pretty clear that Saddam didn’t have any and certainly didn’t hide any in Syria, or anywhere else.

That was yesterday. Today the Washington Times has a completely different version: CIA can’t rule out WMD move to Syria:

[Duelfer] cited some evidence of a transfer. “Whether Syria received military items from Iraq for safekeeping or other reasons has yet to be determined,” he said. “There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation.”

The article cites several sources that indicate that WMD was moved pre-liberation:

Speculation on WMDs in Syria was fueled by the fact that satellite images picked up long lines of trucks waiting to cross the border into Syria before the coalition launched the invasion. …

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command during the war, said in his book, “Inside CentCom,” that intelligence reports pointed to WMD movement into Syria.

In October, John A. Shaw, then the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, told The Times that Russian special forces and intelligence troops worked with Saddam’s intelligence service to move weapons and material to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran.

I have more sources documented in an extensive post I did last in June 2004.

In that post I also predicted that although Syria was at the heart of the terrorist attacks on our forces in Iraq, we would not need to attack Syria because of the president’s masterful foreign policy — particularly in regard to applying the measures outlined in the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act.

Almost a year later and Syria is being held accountable and the Lebanese are soveriegn. It feels good to be an American again.